300,000 TPS recipients from El Salvador, Haiti, and Honduras wait to hear if they can stay in U.S.

posted by TPS Alliance / Alianza Tps | 365sc
October 24, 2017

Hundreds of thousands of peoplewill find outin just a matter of weeksif they’ll be able to continue to live their lives in the United States, or be torn from their homes or driven underground:

About 50,000 Haitians have TPS status, and despite the fact that Haiti has yet to recover from a series of devastating natural disasters, this past March former Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly warned Haitian families settled for years here to “start thinking about returning.”

During ongoing rallies in Washington, D.C. this week, immigrant rights advocates gathered in front of the White House to call on the Trump administration to continue TPS protections. Others marched to the Homeland Security building. "Who's going to take care of their kids?”one man asked, calling attention to the fact that over a quarter of a million U.S. citizen children have TPS recipient parents. The Center for American Progress: